United States v. Sharpnack’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
226 federal appellate · 61 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 462 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Evans v. Cornman (1970), United States v. Carlson (1990)
226 federal appellate · 61 district · 31 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1172 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 715 · 18 U.S.C. § 1025 · 18 U.S.C. § 1073 · 18 U.S.C. § 1111 · 18 U.S.C. § 1112 · 18 U.S.C. § 1113 · 18 U.S.C. § 113
Relies on Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart · Hanover National Bank v. Moyses · Wayman v. Southard
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 462 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever within or upon any of the places now existing or hereafter reserved or acquired as provided in section 7 of this title, is guilty of any act or omission which, although not made punishable by any enactment of Congress, would be punishable if committed or omitted within the jurisdiction of the State, Territory, Possession, or District in which such place is situated, by the laws thereof in force at the time of such act or omission, shall be guilty of a like offense and subject to a like punishment.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“chose to assure 'complete current conformity with the criminal laws of the respective States in which the enclaves are situated.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 1201. Kidnaping (a) Whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward or otherwise any person, except in the ease of a minor by the parent thereof, when: (1) the person is willfully transported in interstate or foreign commerce; (2) any such act against the person is done within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States;[ 5 ]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.